Kanji1 / 14
層 kanji
stratum, social class, layer, story, floor
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 14
- School grade
- Grade 6 (elementary school)
On readings
ソウ
Kun readings
NoneVariant forms
層Words with 層
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —底辺層lower classes; proletariat; underclass
- —主婦層housewife demographic; housewives
- —最下層bottom layer; undermost layer; lowest (societal) class; bottom (economic) stratum; lowest caste
- —高層階upper floor (of a high-rise building)
- —極貧層destitute poor class; the extremely poor; people below the poverty line
- —表層的superficial; shallow
- —下層雲low-level clouds; low clouds
- —中層雲mid-level clouds; middle clouds
- —硬盤層hardpan
- —鉄盤層iron pan
- —無光層aphotic zone
- —地層学stratigraphy
- —多階層multilayer; multilevel
- —放射層radiation zone (within the sun)
- —選手層player depth (in a team); pool of players
- —バカ層unthinking masses; stupid people; sheeple
- —ローム層stratum of loam
- —亜成層圏substratosphere
- —下層階級proletariat; lower classes
- —下層社会the underworld; lower ranks of society